@magentawillow@weeeannie@Adrian_Hilton It isn't a memorial. The cenotaph is a Greek word meaning an empty tomb. It was built as a tomb for all those who's bodies weren't recovered from WW1, with later conflicts included. Many see it as the gravesite of their lost loved ones and treat it with the reverence of such.
@PrincePhil_M@Bren4Bassetlaw For clarity it's a cenotaph, an empty tomb. Originally a wooden structure after WW1 for all the families who had lost someone and no body had been recovered - it was their tomb. It is not a memorial, but a grave.
@Little_G2@Simplyplants@melindiscott@markswife@metpoliceuk The only inscription on the cenotaph is "glorious dead". It is the empty tomb for all those from WW1 who's bodies were never recovered. Like any tomb it deserves respect. It's their place. Not ours.
@JamesDalby87@Argyll_FEPOW@GBNewsSpin@darrengrimes The cenotaph doesn't resemble anything other than the tomb that it is. Cenotaph is a Greek word meaning empty tomb. That what it was built for. For all those lost in WW1 where no body was found. Its their tomb. Their place. Not ours.
@TLRailUK Today India landed something on the moon. An amazing achievement. Today in England you can't get a train into London. Our usual stella service.
@WalkerMarcus I wonder if it was easy to predict? CofE effectively stated they were a non-essential service unlike tesco or B&Q. This at a time when they were spiritually needed most. It left some of us very alone and very adrift from a faith which didn't appear to want us. Why come back?
@jimbo_4000000 @johnredwood Anecdotally that's why the UK has HGV driver shortage. Average age of a driver across Europe is early 50's? UK drivers ran Ltd companies. IR35 shifted the penalty for tax evasion to employers, making it unpalatable to employ freelancers. Now UK has a shortage of HGV drivers
@johnredwood IR35 directly caused the closure of my IT company. I now do the same job, changing clients after every project. The difference is I'm employed by a non UK company who pay me less, so I pay a 3rd less tax in the UK. The remaining money? Where do multinationals pay tax? Not in UK?
@Picss3o@MPIainDS@naomi2009 I'm assuming you have a very nice state pension and have absolutely no idea what it's like being furloughed or made redundant. Something us poor people have to deal with as well as the increased severe reduction in life expectancy because of the poverty we live in.
@DavidGauke@ConHome Why? Vaccinated still spread disease. Is it worth breaking the Nuremburg Code and opening that horror for future generations? Are we forgetting the reasons for refusing unwanted medical treatments?
Or is this blaming a few outlying wierdos for government incompetence?
@RiserKensal@JohnWil04083479 @simsy1977 Same for the German v England match. The app wasn't working. Even so, I know people beforehand were just inputing the codes from friends at home without doing the test as local pharmacy's had run out.
@markw3194 @NeilDThompsonn@domjoly@mrjamesob Yeah, but its $10 to the inspector if you haven't got one.
What it isn't is a biometric identity card that you are required to carry that could allow the gov to block your ability to buy food. Based in your gender, creed, religion or race. Happened elsewhere these introduced.
@brian__oneill @shelleymonty1@Claire_Edberg@ProfKarolSikora My mum was a nurse for 20 years. Towards the end of her career she caught something meaning a she now only has the use of one lung. Medically she can't have this vaccine. Are you saying you support vaccine passports, which potentially could lead her to be refused entry to Tesco?
@ColinHutchings1 @ProfKarolSikora As a question will you be asking to see their hepatitis vaccination status? As an employer you are asking about one type of vaccination why not all? If some one got sick with something you hadn't asked about, would that not be criminally negligent of you?